A Phineas Pinkham Bibliography

This month we’re celebrating the talents of that pulp stalwart—Joe Archibald. Archibald wrote hundreds of stories for the pulps, both dramatic and humorous. His bread and butter it would seem was the humorous tale. He had long running series in several pulp titles. In the detective titles there was Alvin Hinkey, the harness bull Hawkshaw, in 10 Story Detective; Scoops & Snooty, the Evening Star’s dizzy duo, in Ten Detective Aces; and the President of the Hawkeye Detective Agency himself—Willie Klump in Popular Detective. While in the aviation titles he had Elmer Hubbard and Pokey Cook in Sky Birds; the one-two punch of Ambrose Hooley & Muley Spinks in The Lone Eagle, The American Eagle, Sky Fighters and War Birds; and last, but by no means least, the pride of Booneville—Phineas Pinkham in Flying Aces!

Joe Archibald’s Phineas Pinkham was the longest continuously running aviation character in the pulps. Running in the pages of Flying Aces from November 1930 until the magazine dropped it’s Fiction section in November 1943. In 151 stories, Pinkham bedevils the men of the 9th Pursuit Squadron, all the Hauptmanns and vons the Boche send his way and his hapless C.O. Major Rufus Garrity with his pranks, jokes and insane inventions that seem only to amuse Phineas.

Here is a checklist of his adventures:

title

magazine

date

vol

no

1930

Sneeze That Off

Flying Aces

Nov

6

6

1931

The Hardware Ace

Flying Aces

Feb

6

9

Rock-A-Bye Jerry

Flying Aces

Jun

9

1

Bargains For Blois

Flying Aces

Jul

9

2

Tell It To The King

Flying Aces

Aug

9

3

For Dear Old G.H.Q.

Flying Aces

Sep

9

4

Crazy Like a Fox

Flying Aces

Oct

9

5

Junkers—C.O.D.

Flying Aces

Nov

9

6

Please Omit Flowers

Flying Aces

Dec

9

7

1932

Half-Shot at Chaumont

Flying Aces

Jan

9

8

A Flyer In Tin

Flying Aces

Feb

11

1

Too Good for Hanging

Flying Aces

Mar

11

2

From Spad to Worse

Flying Aces

Apr

11

3

Pride of the Pinkhams

Flying Aces

May

11

4

No Money, No Flyee

Flying Aces

Jun

12

1

Herr Tonic

Flying Aces

Jul

12

2

Sky A LA Mode

Flying Aces

Aug

12

3

The Reel Hero

Flying Aces

Sep

12

4

The Bat’s Whiskers

Flying Aces

Oct

13

1

Good To The First Drop

Flying Aces

Nov

13

2

Shower Kraut

Flying Aces

Dec

13

3

1933

The Bull Flight

Flying Aces

Jan

13

4

Sleuthing Syrup

Flying Aces

Feb

14

1

Nothing But The Tooth

Flying Aces

Mar

14

2

The Fryin’ Dutchman

Flying Aces

Apr

14

3

The Grim Reaper

Flying Aces

May

14

4

Spin Feathers

Flying Aces

Jul

15

1

Take The Heir

Flying Aces

Aug

15

2

Stage Flight

Flying Aces

Sep

15

3

Herr Net

Flying Aces

Oct

15

4

Bomb Voyage

Flying Aces

Nov

16

1

The Frying Suit

Flying Aces

Dec

16

2

1934

Smell-Shocked

Flying Aces

Jan

16

3

String ‘Em Back Alive

Flying Aces

Feb

16

4

Hans Up

Flying Aces

Mar

17

1

Hose De Combat

Flying Aces

May

17

2

No Fuelin’

Flying Aces

Jun

17

3

Hunbugs

Flying Aces

Jul

17

4

Intelligence Pest

Flying Aces

Aug

18

1

Scrappy birthday

Flying Aces

Sep

18

2

Tattle Tailwinds

Flying Aces

Oct

18

3

Parlez Voodoo

Flying Aces

Nov

18

4

Good Haunting

Flying Aces

Dec

19

1

1935

An Itch In Time

Flying Aces

Jan

19

2

Crepe Hangers

Flying Aces

Feb

19

3

Horse Flyers

Flying Aces

Mar

19

4

Geese Monkeys

Flying Aces

Apr

20

1

Cinema bums

Flying Aces

May

20

2

Prop Eyes

Flying Aces

Jun

20

3

Rice and Shine

Flying Aces

Jul

20

4

Dog Flight

Flying Aces

Aug

21

1

Pfalz Teeth

Flying Aces

Sep

21

2

One Hun, One Hit, Three Errors

Flying Aces

Oct

21

3

Sea Gullible

Flying Aces

Nov

21

4

Fallen Archies

Flying Aces

Dec

22

1

1936

Spy Larking

Flying Aces

Jan

22

2

T.N.T. Party

Flying Aces

Feb

22

3

Doin’s In The Dunes

Flying Aces

Mar

22

4

The Batty Patrol

Flying Aces

Apr

23

1

Smells, Spells, And Shells

Flying Aces

May

23

2

Sky Finance

Flying Aces

Jun

23

3

Scratch-as-Scratch Can

Flying Aces

Jul

23

4

Blois, Blois, Blacksheep

Flying Aces

Aug

24

1

Fish and Gyps

Flying Aces

Sep

24

2

Watch Your Steppes

Flying Aces

Oct

24

3

C’est La Ear

Flying Aces

Nov

24

4

Scrappy Birthday

Flying Aces

Dec

25

1

1937

Flight Opera

Flying Aces

Jan

25

2

P.D.Q.—Boat

Flying Aces

Feb

25

3

Smoke Scream

Flying Aces

Mar

25

4

Poosh ‘Em Up, Pinkham

Flying Aces

Apr

26

1

Wrong About Face

Flying Aces

May

26

2

Bagger In Bagdad

Flying Aces

Jun

26

3

Spree With Lemon

Flying Aces

Jul

26

4

Swiss Wheeze

Flying Aces

Aug

27

1

Peck’s Spad Boys

Flying Aces

Sep

27

2

Scott Free-For-All

Flying Aces

Oct

27

3

Crash or Delivery

Flying Aces

Nov

27

4

Yankee Doodling

Flying Aces

Dec

28

1

1938

Flight Team Flight

Flying Aces

Jan

28

2

Cat’s Spad-Jamas

Flying Aces

Feb

28

3

Eclipse of The Hun

Flying Aces

Mar

28

4

Hoots and Headlights

Flying Aces

Apr

29

1

Kraut Fishing

Flying Aces

May

29

2

The Spider and The Flyer

Flying Aces

Jun

29

3

Zuyder Zee Zooming

Flying Aces

Jul

29

4

Tripe of Peace

Flying Aces

Aug

30

1

Cocarde Sharpers

Flying Aces

Sep

30

2

Heir-O-Bats

Flying Aces

Oct

30

3

Skyway Robbery

Flying Aces

Nov

30

4

Happy Hunning Ground

Flying Aces

Dec

31

1

1939

A Haunting We Will Go

Flying Aces

Jan

31

2

Don Patrol

Flying Aces

Feb

31

3

Kaiser Bilious

Flying Aces

Mar

31

4

Slaked Limeys

Flying Aces

Apr

32

1

Spin Money

Flying Aces

May

32

2

Flight Headed

Flying Aces

Jun

32

3

The Airy Ape

Flying Aces

Jul

32

4

Herr Dresser

Flying Aces

Aug

33

1

Duc Soup

Flying Aces

Sep

33

2

C’est La Goat

Flying Aces

Oct

33

3

Nippon Tuck

Flying Aces

Nov

33

4

Ye Ould Emerald Oil

Flying Aces

Dec

34

1

1940

Impropa Ganda

Flying Aces

Jan

34

2

Fright Leader

Flying Aces

Feb

34

3

Take It or Leafet

Flying Aces

Mar

34

4

Briny Deep Stuff

Flying Aces

Apr

35

1

Flight to the Finish

Flying Aces

May

35

2

Pharaoh and Warmer

Flying Aces

Jun

35

3

Dawn Parole

Flying Aces

Jul

35

4

Horse of Another Cocarde

Flying Aces

Aug

36

1

Air or Nautical

Flying Aces

Sep

36

2

The Foil Guy

Flying Aces

Oct

36

3

Bull Flight

Flying Aces

Nov

36

4

Leave La Frawnce

Flying Aces

Dec

37

1

1941

Crow de Guerre

Flying Aces

Jan

37

2

I Knew De Gaulle

Flying Aces

Feb

37

3

Daze In Dunkirk

Flying Aces

Mar

37

4

Zooming Zombies

Flying Aces

Apr

38

1

Dawn Petrol

Flying Aces

May

38

2

Jerry Prison Scamp

Flying Aces

Jun

38

3

The Eyes Have It

Flying Aces

Jul

38

4

Nieuport News

Flying Aces

Aug

39

1

Chuting Star

Flying Aces

Sep

39

2

Zoom Like It Hot

Flying Aces

Oct

39

3

Gleech of Promise

Flying Aces

Nov

39

4

Gas Me No Questions

Flying Aces

Dec

40

1

1942

Tanks For The Memory

Flying Aces

Jan

40

2

The Moor The Merrier

Flying Aces

Feb

40

3

Hot Francs

Flying Aces

Mar

40

4

Contact Bridge

Flying Aces

Apr

41

1

The Crate Impersonation

Flying Aces

May

41

2

Grim Ferry Tale

Flying Aces

Jun

41

3

Maltese Doublecross

Flying Aces

Jul

41

4

Spy and Ice Cream

Flying Aces

Aug

42

1

Air Screwball

Flying Aces

Sep

42

2

Glider Than Air

Flying Aces

Oct

42

3

Flight Headed

Flying Aces

Nov

42

4

Pot Luck

Flying Aces

Dec

43

1

1943

Heir Minded

Flying Aces

Jan

43

2

Chateau Theory

Flying Aces

Feb

43

3

Pinkham’s Pixies

Flying Aces

Mar

43

4

Laughing Gas Model

Flying Aces

Apr

44

1

Hide and Go Sheik

Flying Aces

May

44

2

Jappy Landing

Flying Aces

Jun

44

3

Three Aces Feast

Flying Aces

Jul

44

4

Italian Vamoose

Flying Aces

Aug

45

1

Czech Mates

Flying Aces

Sep

45

2

Gamboling With Goebbels

Flying Aces

Oct

45

3

Sounds Vichy

Flying Aces

Nov

45

4

“Haw-w-w-w-w!” As a bonus, here’s Phineas Pinkham mirthquake from 1934. From the February number of Flying Aces Phineas goes to some inventive extremes to get a captured flyer back in “String ‘Em Back Alive!”

Major Garrity had an idea. It involved sending Phineas Pinkham back to training school in his stolen Fokker to teach rookies to fight. Phineas had an idea, too. It involved taking that stolen Fokker across the lines to teach the Mad Butcher not to fight. Lay your bets, gentlemen!